From soft to hard
2008-11-26 by slipperysoles
Here is the story: I never cared about Vangelis, in a way (and forgive us for being arrogant when we were young) he was uncool like Jarre was uncool. While Bladerunner was cool, I obviously was not cool enough, because I never saw the movie until 1991. I did however love electronic music. I still remember as a kid being in the music section of a big department store when for the first time I heard the solo in Lucky Man. I never cared about the CS-80, polysynths were out of reach anyway. The first polysynth we could afford was a Korg Poly 61. However in my first band we had an SY-1, a little machine that I always loved. Fast forward a few years. I set up a small studio and started recording again. Hard synths, soft synths, it did not matter (and still doesn't). I even got in touch with the boys from my first band again and we engaged in a cooperation. We started missing our SY-1, which sadly enough had been sold when frequency modulation (and yes you experts out there: I have heard that the DX series in fact used phase modulationÂ…) hit the stage. It was time to get that sound again. I got outbid on a few SY-1s on ebay and elsewhere, and finally I went for a CS-5 as a substitute. But while I think the CS-5 is a cool little machine, its sound is not anywhere close to the SY-1. After a recording session we were watching a DVD that a friend had brought along, the Bladerunner 25th anniversary edition and I got interested in the sound. I bought a CS-80V. We made a soundtrack Vangelis style. We got infected. We got a CS-80. (to be continued)